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careful study of your plans in the last part of the book, especially the one for a hardy border, which is 
the only one I have ever seen adapted to the flowers which can be grown in this country and in our 
climate; and I feel sure your book, with its many charming suggestions, will be to Americans what Mr. 
Robinson’s has been to the English,— their best of guides. 
I should like to order two copies to send to two friends. Again thanking you, I am 
Very truly yours, 
(Mrs.) J. Willis Martin 
That our American public is more or less apathetic in regard to the artistic decoration of country 
homes by means of vegetation effectively arranged, is shown by the fact that "Garden and Forest,” a 
journal devoted very largely to this subject, and characterized by a fine taste, was suffered, after a use¬ 
ful life of ten years, to die from lack of support. This deplorable state of affairs cannot be remedied 
in any more effective way than by the publication of just such works as "A Plea for Hardy Plants, with 
Suggestions for Effective Arrangement,” by J. Wilkinson Elliott, Landscape Architect (Doubleday, 
Page & Co.). Any person of taste ought, with the suggestions offered in this book, to be able to ar¬ 
range, around a country-house, plants adapted to our outdoor conditions. — The Nation. 
Mr. Elliott, in his valuable little volume "A Plea for Hardy Plants” makes an earnest plea for 
landscape gardening. The book bears the impress of a mind thoroughly and practically informed 
on the subject of which it treats. — Pittsburg Telegraph. 
" A Plea for Hardy Plants, with Suggestions for Effective Arrangement,” by J. Wilkinson 
Elliott. (8xto'>.) Beautifully illustrated by J. Horace McFarland. Holiday binding. New York : 
Doubledav, Page & Co. I know of no way in which this book may be adequately described. It is as 
beautiful as a distinctively holiday issue, as practical as a book of professional advice to landscape 
gardeners, and as inspiring as a lecture on creating beautiful grounds and parks. There has been no 
nobler missionary of the beautiful than Mr. Elliott, no higher message of the moral effect of beauty 
than this. — Journal of Education. 
The great advantages of gardening with hardy plants and shrubs are so apparent, as compared with 
tender budding plants, that it seems a waste of words to make argument, writes Mr. J. Wilkinson 
Elliott in "A Plea for Hardy Plants,” handsomely published with superb illustrations by Doubleday, 
Page Sc Co. He believes that one dollar intelligently spent on the grounds will afford more beauty than 
ten spent on the house, and one cannot read this appeal without being made enthusiastic over the idea of 
using hardy plants. The book is superbly illustrated. — Town and Country. 
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